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Leaching of a zinc ore and concentrate using the Geocoat™ technology
, Article Minerals Engineering ; Volume 24, Issue 1 , 2011 , Pages 64-69 ; 08926875 (ISSN) ; Petersen, J ; Roostaazad, R ; Hosseini, S ; Mohammad Mousavi, S ; Najafi, A ; Vasiri, A. K ; Sharif University of Technology
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In this study, the Geocoat™ technology was used for the extraction of zinc from a mineral concentrate obtained from the Kooshk mine (Yazd, Iran) by a culture dominated by the mesophilic bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans in a packed column bioreactor. A low grade sphalerite ore was used as support for the concentrate coating. During the 100 days of leaching pH, Fe3+, Fetotal, microbial population density and zinc extraction were measured. The final zinc extraction from concentrate and low grade support was 97% and 78%, respectively, and it was found that leaching from the support does not proceed significantly before leaching from the coating is completed
The effects of Fe(II) and Fe(III) concentration and initial pH on microbial leaching of low-grade sphalerite ore in a column reactor
, Article Bioresource Technology ; Volume 99, Issue 8 , 2008 , Pages 2840-2845 ; 09608524 (ISSN) ; Yaghmaei, S ; Vossoughi, M ; Roostaazad, R ; Jafari, A ; Ebrahimi, M ; Chabok, O. H ; Turunen, I ; Sharif University of Technology
2008
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In this study the effects of initial concentration of Fe(II) and Fe(III) ions as well as initial pH on the bioleaching of a low-grade sphalerite ore in a leaching column over a period of 120 days with and without bacteria were investigated. Four different modifications of medium were used as column feed solutions to investigate the effects of initial concentration of Fe(II) and Fe(III) ions on zinc extraction. The experiments were carried out using a bench-scale, column leaching reactor, which was inoculated with mesophilic iron oxidizing bacteria, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, initially isolated from the Sarcheshmeh chalcopyrite concentrate (Kerman, Iran). The effluent solutions were...